Work on Wolf Road Chipotle is underway

Workers are demolishing the old Nyack College building at the Wolf Road site where a Chipotle Mexican Grill is planned.

The Chipotle will be the fifth in the region — after Clifton Park, Wilton, Stuyvesant Plaza and Latham — and is expected to open in mid-February.

The redevelopment of the 105 Wolf Rd. site involves more than just Chipotle. Developer Tom Burke says he is planning additional construction on the available three acres, although he doesn’t yet know what that will entail.

Burke says he’s talking to potential office and hotel tenants, as well as some big-name retailers who don’t yet have locations in the Capital Region.

“This is the last piece of any significance on Wolf Road,” said Burke, who built the Starbucks plaza at Wolf and Albany-Shaker roads. “There’s nothing close to three acres that is zoned appropriately and is flat like this.” (Photo by Lori Van Buren/TU.)

I hope that they address the traffic issues at the Wolf Rd/Sand Creek intersection. During peak traffic times it is very difficult for drivers to exit left from the HSBC bank onto Sand Creek Rd. It would make sense to have access to Chipotle be entrance only on the Sand Creek side of the restaurant. I travel Sand Creek everyday so I am familiar with the area.